Sotheby’s has auctioned a rare copy of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, which abolished slavery, for $12 mln, My Weekend reports. Including fees, the total price reached $13.7 mln.
The document bears the signature of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. The 13th Amendment was passed by the US Senate in 1864 and by the House of Representatives in 1865.
Some US states only ratified the amendment decades later. Among them were Kentucky in 1976 and Mississippi in 1995.
The buyer, hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, also purchased a signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation from 1864 for $4.4 mln.
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